Giant Swarm

Ever had that sinking feeling when you realize you haven't backed up something important? 👋 Xavier Avrillier shows how to avoid that heart-stopping moment with your Kubernetes clusters by automating etcd snapshots.

🚀 Happy New Year! First things first. I just registered for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025. Looking forward to meeting you in London. 🎉

New Year's Resolution: Make better platform decisions with data ✨ Start 2025 right with out-of-the-box observability that works as "smooth as cheesecake". Our new Observability Platform transforms raw metrics into actionable knowledge, helping you build smarter platforms with zero setup overhead. See how we're making data-driven decisions easier in 2025. ⬇️

🎄 As the holiday season draws near, we at Giant Swarm would like to take a moment to express our heartfelt gratitude to our customers, partners, and employees. 🩷 Together, we’ve shared an incredible journey in 2024, marked by milestones and achievements that have set new benchmarks for us as a company. 🚀 Thank you for being an integral part of our success — your trust, collaboration, and passion have been at the core of everything we’ve accomplished. 🙏 This year has been nothing short of extraordinary. Let’s look back at some of the highlights: ✨ The Launch of Giant Swarm Platform 3.0 at KubeCon in Paris, setting new standards for cloud-native technology. ✨ Our First Hybrid Cloud Deployments, paving the way for flexible and innovative solutions tailored to diverse environments from edge to cloud. ✨ Groundbreaking Installations in Factories Across the Globe, from Europe to North America and soon expanding to China and South America. ✨ Empowering Internal Developer Platforms with our first demos using Backstage and hosting our inaugural customer workshops to help organizations accelerate software delivery. ✨ The First Transactions via the AWS Marketplace, unlocking new opportunities for seamless collaboration and delivery. ✨ Our First Company Onsite Outside of Europe, bringing our global team together to strengthen bonds and build new memories. As we look forward to 2025, we’re excited to continue driving innovation, enabling faster and more secure software delivery, and helping businesses thrive in an ever-evolving digital landscape. 🎄 But first, it’s time to pause, reflect, and recharge. We wish you and your loved ones a joyful holiday season filled with warmth, peace, and laughter. May the New Year bring you health, happiness, and countless opportunities to achieve your dreams. 🎇 Stay safe, enjoy the festivities, and let’s create even greater stories together in the year ahead. 🌟 #HappyHolidays #MerryChristmas #Xmas2024 #Happy2025

Ten years of remote work has taught us that it's all about the people. Thanks to our amazing team for making 2024 feel like we're right next door, even when we're oceans apart. 🌟

What happens when your Kubernetes expertise meets Minecraft server management? 🤔 Join us for a deep dive into complex technical challenges, mod management, and the art of customer success.

Certainly a highlight of this year: launching our Platform 3.0 with #ClusterAPI! 🎉 Having reached our 10th birthday, we couldn't be prouder to share how we've combined a decade of production #Kubernetes expertise with the power of open source. Platform 3.0 isn't just another release — it's the culmination of 10 years spent in the trenches with our customers, understanding their real challenges and building solutions that actually work.

Success isn't about having the fanciest tools — it's about treating your platform as a product. Our very own Dominik Kress dives deep into why the most successful organizations are applying product thinking to their platforms (and no, it's not just DevOps rebranded 😉). The real gold? When he breaks down how the Product Trio concept revolutionizes platform engineering and why the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Platform Maturity Model should be your compass, not your checklist. Get the full scoop on Platform-as-a-Product from someone who lives and breathes it. ⬇️

Meet Giant Swarm's Observability Platform with this blog post from Dominik Kress 🔍 Built on open source (Mimir, Loki, OpenTelemetry), it transforms system metrics into actual knowledge. Because observability should help you make better decisions, not just show pretty graphs. The cool part? Zero setup, built-in resource optimization, and it actually respects your team's expertise instead of prescribing how to use it.

If you couldn't be in Salt Lake City for #Rejekts, you can now pretend you were there and catch ☁️Marcus Noble's great talk from the event.